IPL 2014 Auction Drama with Kevin Pietersen is bought for $1.5m

Bangalore,12 Feb (PTI): Kevin Pietersen has been bought by the Delhi Daredevils team for $1.5m (£900,000) in the Indian Premier League auction in the southern Indian city of Bangalore.

IPL 2014 Auction Drama with Kevin Pietersen is bought for $1.5m

Image Credit: GETTY IMAGES The 33-year-old is available for the entire tournament for the first time after being discarded by England. India’s Yuvraj Singh has been bought for a record $2.2m by Royal Challengers Bangalore. A total of 514 players are on sale for the seventh edition of the tournament. Pietersen played last season for the Delhi side – but they chose not to retain him because of his expected international commitments. Each franchise has a spending cap of 600m rupees (£5.87m).